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FAS USDA 06/09/16 Livestock and Products Annual_Cairo_Egypt_9-1-2016.
FAO 11/04/13 Improving Animal Health Planning to Control Avian Influenza in Egypt. Improving Animal Health Planning to Control Avian Influenza in Egypt After its first detection in 2006, Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza (HPAI) has spread rapidly in Egypt and become endemic in poultry populations in several governorates.

HPAI continued to cause considerable economic loss to poultry producers and remains a public health challenge in the country. Over 40 million birds had been culled during the early periods of 2006-7 alone. At present, outbreaks continue to occur in different production sectors and along the poultry value chain including in commercial farms, household flocks and live bird markets. A sound animal health planning is of paramount importance to enhance the national disease control program.
EUROSURVEILLANCE 02/04/15 Emergence of a novel cluster of influenza A(H5N1) virus clade 2.2.1.2 with putative human health impact in Egypt, 2014/15.

A distinct cluster of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses of subtype A(H5N1) has been found to emerge within clade 2.2.1.2 in poultry in Egypt since summer 2014 and appears to have quickly become predominant.

Viruses of this cluster may be associated with increased incidence of human influenza A(H5N1) infections in Egypt over the last months. In Egypt, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) influenza A(H5N1) viruses of clade 2.2.1 and their descendants have been circulating in poultry populations since 2006, causing sporadic human infections [1]. Human influenza A(H5N1) infections in Egypt have been reported since the introduction of the virus in 2006 with 204 cases occurring until end of 2014 and a fatality rate of 35,8% in laboratory-confirmed cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Sample origin Table 1. Figure 1. Phylogenetic analyses Figure 2. Genetic characterisation Table 2.